Before premiering their first foreign co-production, The Red Turtle, later this year with France’s Wild Bunch, Studio Ghibil brings us a short and sweet adaptation of ancient picture scrolls that are often considered the first example of manga. Entitled Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga, it, over the course of 30 seconds, “seeks to highlight ecological issues that the the modern world is quick to forget about” through the interactions of a frog and rabbit as some mice observe. [Mashable]
After you’re done with that — it really won’t take so long — look back on one of the studio’s most acclaimed films in an eight-minute making-of video. This subject is Hayao Miyazaki‘s Princess Mononoke, and, while brief, the video covers much of the intention behind that film’s creation, from the staggering requirements behind creating animation cels to Quentin Tarantino‘s unexpected role in helping its English dub come to fruition.
Watch both below: